unity

Except for Quebec

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Team Canada has more in common with frightened schoolboys than with respectable elected individuals.  Standing up to the half dead Republican rabble is going to take more than negotiation skills.  Thankfully the premiers are not robots like Republican elected representatives who have no thought of their own.  They know when to leave their partisan stripes at home and when to take advantage of an opportunity.  Canadian business interests who favour a Canadian dollar trailing the US dollar by 30 points should team up with the Bloc Quebecois, because when it comes to strength and unity to face external threats Canadians will have a winning team, except for Quebec.

Push comes to shove , and  tariff to hardship

People, elected representatives should know, are infinitely more important than politics.  So let the squabbling for power and influence end.  Canadian politicians know how tariffs work.  We cannot say the same for the huffing puffing wolves of the United States and the Canadian Dominion. I am sure that Canadians want their lives improved without giving up their independence from foreign dominance.  American resources and Canadian resources come from the same place.

He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. (Proverbs 22:16)

Shame on all those entrepreneurs who have supported the US economy at the expense of Canadian workers

Sundown and moonrise

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The day Christ died was a Passover.  He did not die over a period of seven days.  He was, according to the eyewitnesses to his life, the Paschal Lamb. His herald announced him as God’s Lamb (John 1:29). The man from Nazareth was the Paschal Lamb. Passover or Pesach is a single day, and it corresponds astronomically to the day/night the Sons of Israel departed Egypt with Joseph’s bones.  It is an annul sign or feast. Christians have tagged the Sunday that follows the first  full moon after the spring equinox. Then they backtrack try to Friday and call that Good Friday. If there is such a thing as holy time it will be marked by supernatural means. Passover is always the 14th day of Nisan, and coincides with the full moon of the first month. The day Christ died people are likely to have seen the sun disappear around 3pm, and the full moon rise shortly after sunset.

moon sliver
moon as a very thin sliver
full moon near the horizon

Still miles apart

If you lived in ancient Israel, the first and last days of each month would feature a moon like the first two in the set (above). In the middle of month, around the fourteenth day, the sky moon would be full. The moon and sun have assigned tasks of marking off day, night, signs, and seasons (Genesis 1:14). So, since the moon is essential for calculating when to keep the Passover Feast, Despite sharing two common sets of books harmony is hard to find. Good Friday, Ramadan and Passover are unlikely bedfellows.

Messiah is not diplomatic about festivals and hoopla

Jews and Christians are still miles apart over what Passover means.  The violence on Temple Mount shows the galaxies between Jews and Muslims.   Maybe Arabs and the Jewish people will do business and exchange vacation spots but sitting down to celebrate life and divine revelation together is next to impossible. Of course there are many ways to express cultural solidarity, such as folk lore, traditional and regional practices. Spiritual enlightenment and divine revelation are not possible grounds for harmony between mosque, synagogue and church. The sun has set and the moon is now fully exposed as not a “great” source of light. All the patriarchs, prophets and kings are losers, and if you ask Yeshua, he will tell you that they are all guilty of posing with someone else’s property.